an older woman with curlers on her hair has a smiley face tattooed on her arm Alt: an older woman with curlers in her hair has a yellow face tattoo that turns from a grown to a smile as she flexes her bicep. She also smirks as she does this.

I think I just realized that planning and getting tattoos is my therapy for these absolute insane times.
I went 20 yrs between my first and second and now actively planning my fifth, sixth, and seventh ... with several more ideas percolating.

Happy First Contact Day 🖖 From TrekCulture & Friends!
#StarTrek #FirstContactDay

Image of a single serve pizza and bread sticks from Rocky Rococo restaurant.

A frequent lunch stop when living back home in WI.
I miss those bread sticks!

The End of the Poll Tax And, mark your calendars: Substack Live with Andrew Weissmann, Wednesday morning at 9am ET

It’s the 60th Anniversary of the end of the poll tax. So of course, Republicans want to bring it back. Read a little history & the language the Court used to leave no doubt about laws that use a poll tax to interfere with the right to vote. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days.

A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

a woman in a yellow jacket is standing next to a woman in a red jacket with the words see behind her Alt: A scene from the TV show Star Trek: Starfleet Academy where Jett Reno says "Everything is gonna brie alright"

Wow, excellent episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy this week. It's quickly becoming a top series for me and can't wait to see more 🖖

Holding institutions accountable and wanting them to do better is not the same as delighting in their demise.
Plus, yes, social media is a cesspool but sometimes it's the only way the unfiltered truth can get out.

a man is standing next to a white horse in the water and talking to it . Alt: The most heart breaking scene in all of the movie The Neverending Story where the horse Artex is succumbing to the Swamps of Sadness and Atreyu is crying "You have to try. You have to care."

Just thinking about this scene makes me cry. And yes, traumatized for life.

Pro-life my ass

A screenshot of the current temperature in Cincinnati, OH. It's -14°C and mostly cloudy.

Opposite end of the extreme here. And supposed to get colder 🥶
Stay safe!

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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The United States was the gold standard for science and technology for decades, and there was never any reason that had to end.

a man in a red sweater is crawling on the floor in a room . Alt: a man in a red sweater is crawling on the floor in a bathroom. A scene from the movie The Goonies.

Courtesy of The Goonies ...

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

I ... I didn't know what this means 🫣

in the pit

This entire weekend

Not to mention, WTH is with that song! I get the world is a total dumpster fire but there's definitely a better way to use that in your holiday ad.

Targeted machine learning is a better phrase here than "AI". It has been used in science for awhile now - without the environmental impacts of GenAI, which is trash.

two men are sitting at a table with the words wow that 's ambitious behind them Alt: O'Neal and Jackson from Stargate SG-1 sitting at a table with the caution "wow ... that's ... ambitious"

Phew, those with actual saving experience! 🔘 🌀 🌌

Between the rising costs and AI crammed into all of them - that'll be a no from me.

We're at the next stag of the authors' lawsuit against Anthropic.

Check the link below to see which of your books they raided and then click through to file a claim.

Four of mine were in there.

a boy in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor Alt: a boy in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor giving the thumbs up after hitting the donate now button

I made a donation today.
Don't forget to check if you have an employer matching program too!

Just donated to my local food bank and fortunate to have an employer matching program to maximize the donation.
Check to see if you have a similar program!
give.freestorefoodbank.org/campaign/716...

lmao

So comforting as I'm sitting in an airport!